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...spring break might be over, but fear not: on April 6, the revered Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) will open their annual spring production, a show that consistently has one of the largest budgets in the campus theatrical world. This year’s feature is a farcical operetta entitled “The Yeomen of the Guard,” which will run at the Agassiz Theatre. HRG&SP produce one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 14 operettas per semester, replaying shows every four years...
Last performed by HRG&SP in the fall of 2001, “Yeomen” tells the story of Colonel Fairfax (Noah Van Niel ’08), prisoner and falsely accused sorcerer who finds himself incarcerated in the Tower of London. While imprisoned, Fairfax manages to marry Elsie Maynard (Celia R. Maccoby ’07), a singer whose commitment is questionable: she is already engaged to a jester named Jack Point (Samuel Gale Rosen ’06). Fairfax’s rather blatant admirer, Phoebe Meryll (Jessica G. Peritz ’06) helps...
...SP’s interpretation promises to be an exciting reinvention of an old favorite. What’s more, the show casts the Tower of London as a puppet, lending a slightly off-beat vibe to the show. As HRG&SP President Casey M. Lurtz ’07 notes, ““Yeomen of the Guard” is the closest Gilbert & Sullivan [came] to a serious dramatic work.” The variety and hilarity in “Yeomen” promise to make it an exciting production...
...about things that don’t really [exist] onstage.”“WELCOME, GENTRY”Nineteenth-century operatic parodies of Gothic literature may sound more like a freshman seminar than an evening of college entertainment. But the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) manage two highly entertaining productions every year since their founding in1956.After last night’s opening, “Ruddigore” (also called “The Witch’s Curse”) will be showing every night through December 10 at the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe...
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